After I released the conclusion of Angharad's Gaby Heads South trilogy last week,

So, here I am, back in Brunel and Middlemarch country after my oh so brief sojourne to visit family and friends up in GOC.

Well it's official. Today I received the offical paperwork that I am divorced.

L

Now before I forget, (given I'm a daft blonde bint)

Has anyone heard any more about a continuation of persaphone's series "Cassandra". I so do hope it continues and that pershpone is doing well.

Charlotte Van Goethem

Art as a book cover

there were three girls with very different backgrounds

to enjoy reading your own scribbles?

Recently I came across a book on Amazon that sounded like it might be interesting to read from the description of it. "Cinderella Boy" by Kristina Meister took a little different twist on a theme that would align with many stories on this site. Boy caught by sister trying on her clothes, sister helps him and things take a turn toward a love affair with a boy he has been crushing on for a long time. I'm not going to say much more so don't do a spoiler. It is $3.99 for the Kindle edition.

In this current political and social climate, where it seems that belittling and denigrating certain groups within our society has gained a certain amount of acceptance and legitimacy, let us stop and take a moment to reflect.

As one who has served, I perhaps have a somewhat different perspective than specific members of our government in Washington, D.C. - those who not only have not served, but who's efforts to avoid service are well documented.

Suppose There Actually Was a God
• You know, one like the God of the Koran
• Or the slightly less nasty God of the Old Testament (Jewish) Bible
• Or even the almost-likable God of the New Testament (Christian) Bible
o Confucian and Hindu and Wiccan (and so on) Gods and Goddesses are hardly significant
 BUT we should not dismiss them without at least considering the philosophies that support them
 There is a lot of misinformation floating around about them
 And there is a serious lack of information about them in general

Each year around this time I spend a bit more attention then the rest of the year, to all those fallen in war.

For the Fallen

This ought to give our BCTS writers something to chew on. DNA is NOT a definitive test for who we are or even what we are.There are people out there who are neither male nor female but both or neither depending on how their embryos developed. And we aren't talking about hermaphrodite.

Posting late that is.

Following is a suggested list of courses of study for a new TS.

Skirt Management 101 “Keeping your secrets secret”
Diet Planning 200 “Compliance and avoidance Strategies”
Defensive Dating 312 “?”
Lace Display 402 “When, why and how much”
Feminine Mystique 510 “Preserving the mystery”

Suggestions for additions and revisions are encouraged.

So, after a good night's sleep I'm feeling somewhat better and able to string two sentences together!

After I retired, a couple of years ago and move to a small town in the foot hills of the coast range in Oregon, I got bored and decided to drive school bus for the local schools. Now, while I don't make any real effort to hide my trans status, I also don't flaunt it. As such, I generally look pretty androgynous. That means, long hair, past my shoulders and and my full size breast forms in a bra every day. My hair is usually pulled back at the sides and captured at the crown of my head with a simple brown barrette. Even so, most people clock me as male.

Yes indeedee, today you can read the first chapter of Gaby Book 20, Express, here on BC for absolutely nothing.

I read it a few months ago. I can't remember the title.

A (new in this school?) boy joins the co-ed cheer squad. On the first cheer day the boys uniforms have not arrived yet so the boys are excused from wearing the uniform to school. He shows up without a uniform and the coach and squad are mad at him for reasons they won't explain. Then he shows up for the game and is denied entry. During the discipline process the coach finds out he is a boy and that is why he didn't come to school in the girl's uniform she had ordered for him.

Any ideas on what this story is?

I've apparently been on BC for 14 years 12 months now - so that's 15 years of Gaby, I can't believe you lot aren't bored yet!

Mads

Everyone should know ASAP that Yahoo is shutting down their groups part of their web. Pretty short notice. There is a site telling everyone how to save all their data if they wish. I suggest one get after it if they have anything they wish to save. Personally I have nineteen years of posting to various groups and picking up information from individuals not found anywhere else.

For those who are interested, I have today relocated some considerable distance south - thanks Bev.

Will it work out? I don't know the answer to that one but at least i'm not sofa surfing for a bit.

Thanks to everyone who has shown concern for my welfare over the last weeks and months, I do appreciate it.

Hopefully I can break the downward spiral of both mental state and finances and start recovering my life.

Bye for now
Mads

It was a personal story from an author written four years and one of the points of her story was people obsessed about weight and being skinny. I pray she has finally found herself.

For everyone's concern. It's heartwarming and humbling at the same time. And indeed, thank you for the offers of financial and accommodational support, it really is much appreciated.

Friday night really was a low point, my head wasn't exactly firing on all cylinders. I only mentioned the canal as that's where I was sat at the time, it was quiet and the only place I could find a bench to sit on.

I've got a couple of days reprieve and it looks like I may be leaving GOC for a while.